Gardener Snakes

If you have garter snakes in your yard or garden chances are you may not even know.

Gardener snakes. These snakes are usually brown or black but may be a greenish color. A few garter snakes in the garden can be a good thing. Garden snakes like to bask in the sun to regulate their body temperatures.

Garden snakes nicknamed garter snakes come in many varieties various colors and have different markings depending on your area of the country. Garter snakes are a gardener s friend. The garter snakes thamnophis belong to the collective category of harmless effectively non venomous north american snakes also often referred to as garden snakes.

Endemic to north and central america species in the genus thamnophis can be found from the subarctic plains of canada to costa rica the common garter snake thamnophis sirtalis is the state reptile of massachusetts the length of garter snakes varies from 46 to 137 cm 18. Garter snakes in the yard and garden. A benign snake to humans they eat all the pests that wreak havoc in your garden.

Learn more about the shy but helpful gardening helper who just wants to live peacefully in harmony with you and eat your slugs. Many species and subspecies range across much of the continent. Garter snakes are shy.

Garter snakes will call your yard home when it provides the right conditions. The garden snake moniker stems from how frequently garter snakes are found in gardens and yards where they prosper amid moist soil conditions and rich food. This snake species is also called a garter snake they can range in color and size and be aggressive or docile depending on it s subspecies and habitat conditions.

Their diet mainly consists of any creature they are able to kill including slugs leeches. Garter snake is a common name for the generally harmless small to medium sized snakes belonging to the genus thamnophis. The garter snake is abundant in the eastern united states.